Created by adorable brothers Hank and John Green, Crash Course uses a combination of fast talk, witty banter, gorgeous graphics and pop-culture references to make subjects like world history, literature, biology and ecology palatable to a modern audience.

In the world history segments especially, Crash Course packs impressive amount of information into each episode, and on top of that, show us what’s important, fascinating, overlooked and controversial about history. And it does it without any of the euro-centrist, great-man-worshiping, white-washing that you tend to get find in high school text books. Crash Course shows reverence to nothing and no one. Except maybe the Mongols.

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Bill has been a Sun columnist, reporter and editor for 22 years. Previously was in Sports as Toronto Raptors beat writer and NBA columnist, he joined Entertainment in 2005 as a television and music critic before moving exclusively to TV. Prior to the Sun, he worked at the Montreal Daily News, the Orillia Packet & Times and the Sherbrooke Record.